{"conversationCode":"279-026","tapeNumber":279,"conversationNumber":26,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-279-026","startDateTime":"1971-09-22T20:54:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-09-22T21:17:00.000Z","startDate":"22-Sep-1971","startTime":"4:54 PM","endDate":"22-Sep-1971","endTime":"5:17 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Sanchez, Manolo;","description":"On September 22, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 4:54 pm and 5:17 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 279-026 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"EOB","recordingDevice":"Old Executive Office Building","latitudeEstimated":38.897567,"longitudeEstimated":-77.039147,"chronCode":2,"chronRelease":"Second Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"26-Oct-2000","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 279-26\n\nDate: September 22, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 4:54 pm and 5:17 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President met with Manolo Sanchez.\n\n**********************************************************************\n\n[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 04/09/2019.\nSegment cleared for release.]\n[Personal Returnable]\n[279-026-w001]\n[Duration: 22s]\n\n       President’s request for Manolo Sanchez\n              -Placement of unknown object\n\n**********************************************************************\n\nSanchez left at an unknown time before 5:17 pm.","filename":["279-026.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:52:37","tapeEnd":"02:55:31","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Sanchez, Manolo"],"prevCode":"279-025","nextCode":"279-027","transcript":[{"start":0.13,"end":3.98,"text":"You put this in the back of the book."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with his personal valet, Manolo Sanchez, in the Old Executive Office Building to provide instructions regarding a specific item. The President directed Sanchez to place an unknown object in the back of a book. This brief, personal exchange concludes with the requested task being delegated.","topics":["Manolo Sanchez","Personal staff","White House operations","Presidential tasks"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T13:04:10.309Z"},"topicSlugs":["manolo-sanchez","personal-staff","white-house-operations","presidential-tasks"],"audioDurationSec":25,"audioFiles":[{"file":"279-026.mp3","bytes":993505,"durationSec":24.69,"bitrate":321928,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:38.614Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/279-026.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/279-026","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/279/conversation-279-026","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}